Sarah Elizabeth Getto and William Edward Pierce III were married July 27 at the home of the bride’s parents in Ketchum, Idaho. Terence C. Kern, a senior United States District Court judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma and a friend of the bride’s parents, officiated.
Mrs. Pierce, 32, owns Nolita Projects, a Brooklyn-based consulting firm focusing on creative project management. She graduated from N.Y.U., from which she also received a master’s degree in art history focusing on the influence of cybernetics on the Minimalist art movement.
She is the daughter of Judith P. Getto and Ernest J. Getto. The bride’s father is based in Ketchum as a managing director of Burford Capital, a finance firm focused on law based in Manhattan. He retired as a partner in the San Francisco office of the law firm Latham & Watkins. Until 2009, her mother was a San Francisco Bay Area coordinator for the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. She is on the board of the Sun Valley Music Festival, which runs a summer and winter classical music festival and year-round education programs.
Mr. Pierce, 38, is a partner and a managing director in the Manhattan office of White Oak Global Advisors, a private credit firm in San Francisco. He focuses on global strategy for lending opportunities and evaluates strategic platform acquisitions and investment. He graduated from Dartmouth.
He is a son of Elizabeth W. Pierce and William C. Pierce of Norwich, Vt. His father retired as an executive vice president and a group executive at Chemical Bank in Manhattan, now JPMorgan Chase. His mother retired as a partner in Williams-Pierce Interiors, a home-design firm in Manhattan.
The couple met in September 2017 on the dating app Bumble. During their first date at a Manhattan bar, they bonded over poker — he a serious player and she not so much — and what they called their similar weird literary tastes including Mary Roach’s book “Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers.”
